Brita Arena
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| place | Berliner Strasse 9 65189 Wiesbaden , Germany
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '16.5 " N , 8 ° 15' 23.9" E |
| owner | Stadion Berliner Straße GmbH & Co. KG → 100%: Hanvest Holding GmbH |
| opening | October 11, 2007 |
| First game | October 11, 2007 SV Wehen Wiesbaden - Borussia Dortmund 1: 2 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 16 million euros |
| capacity | 12,566 seats |
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The Brita-Arena is a football stadium in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden , which has been the home of SV Wehen Wiesbaden since the 2007/08 season . The facility bears the name of the main sponsor Brita . The Brita-Arena is located on the grounds of the Helmut-Schön-Sportpark between Gustav-Stresemann-Ring, Berliner Straße and Wettiner Straße.
Origin and use
The tubular steel arena was completed in October 2007 after a construction period of only four months and is used by SV Wehen Wiesbaden as a venue for home games. The construction of a new stadium became necessary with the promotion of SV Wehen to the 2nd Bundesliga . The plan to modernize the old stadium on Halberg in Wehen, a district of Taunusstein , and continue to use it as a venue, was abandoned in favor of moving to nearby Wiesbaden.
Until the completion of the Brita-Arena, SV Wehen Wiesbaden played the first four home games of the 2007/08 second division season in Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena . The home game in the first round of the 2007/08 DFB Cup against VfB Stuttgart took place in the Bruchweg Stadium in Mainz .
On October 11, 2007, the Brita-Arena was officially opened with a friendly against Borussia Dortmund (1: 2). The first league home game took place there on October 21, 2007 against local rivals 1. FSV Mainz 05 (1: 3).
In addition to club football, the Brita Arena is also used for international matches. On March 25, 2008, the German U-21 national team defeated Luxembourg 6-0 in Wiesbaden , and on September 8, 2009 the U21 international match against the Czech Republic took place there, which the German team lost 2-1. On April 21, 2010, a friendly match between the World Cup participants South Africa and North Korea took place in the arena (0-0). On November 16, 2010, the German U-21s defeated England 2-0. As part of the American Football European Championship 2010, the match between Germany and Finland, which the German team won 23: 4, took place in the Brita-Arena on July 29, 2010. In autumn 2011, two more international matches took place in the Brita Arena. On October 11, 2011, Poland and Belarus split 2-0 in front of over 5,000 spectators. On November 19, 2011, the German women's national soccer team scored their highest victory to date with 17: 0 in the European Championship qualifier against the women's national team from Kazakhstan .
The Brita-Arena is designed as a pure football stadium, i. i.e., it has no athletics facility . This means that the spectators in the front row are only about five meters away from the field. The disadvantage of this is that the goal line of the back-gate stands is only clearly visible or at all visible from the first rows.
The capacity was corrected for the first half of the 2007/08 season to 12,066 spectators from the originally planned 12,769 spectator seats. All places, including around 5,800 standing places, are covered. There is a VIP area, boxes and business seats. The stadium operator is Stadion Berliner Straße GmbH & Co KG .
The planned period of use as the home ground of SV Wehen Wiesbaden was originally five years. The fact that a new stadium is to be built for the period after that was contractually regulated between the state capital Wiesbaden and SV Wehen Wiesbaden; however, a location for the new building was not found. Long-term use of the Brita-Arena, which was actually intended as a temporary facility, was therefore not ruled out by both contracting parties.
In October 2014, the City of Wiesbaden's magistrate decided on a modified development plan, which created the building regulations for a permanent stadium at this point. In addition, an expansion of the audience capacity to up to 15,200 audience seats was approved. In 2016 it was decided to replace the west stand with a permanent new building in order to be able to meet the requirements of the DFL with regard to spectator capacity, camera positions, etc. The north, east and south stands should initially remain in their previous form. For the flying building every five years to renew the building permit is required.
At the beginning of February 2018, Stadion Berliner Straße GmbH & Co. KG (SBS) and the city of Wiesbaden agreed on a new usage contract. As a result, SV Wehen Wiesbaden will play its games in the Brita-Arena until 2047. Furthermore, SV Wehen Wiesbaden announced that the west stand will be rebuilt and the stadium will be expanded to at least 15,000 seats in order to meet the requirements of the DFL for licensing to the 2nd Bundesliga . The new grandstand, which will be built from concrete, is expected to cost eight to nine million euros. The state of Hesse is contributing 3.5 million euros of this. Work began on March 11, 2019 and should be completed by the end of 2020, with only 9,100 spectator seats available by the time the work is completed. Game operations should continue during construction work. If it is necessary to move to another stadium for individual games during the construction work, the Mainz Bruchweg Stadium is intended for this.
Ownership
The stadium construction put a strain on SV Wehen 1926-Taunusstein e. V. with liabilities of around 15 million euros. After the licensed player department and the youth performance center (U19, U17, U16) were spun off into SV Wehen 1926 Wiesbaden GmbH , 90 percent of which is held by a subsidiary of Hanvest Holding by the Hankammer family, the e. V. transferred the stadium in 2008 to the Hanvest subsidiary Stadion Berliner Straße GmbH & Co. KG (SBS). SBS has been leasing the stadium to SV Wehen 1926 Wiesbaden GmbH since then . This made the e. V. "in principle debt-free".
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Main entrance (under construction)
View from the northeast (under construction)
Coach and substitution bench
Interior panorama of the Brita-Arena
Player tunnel
Arena video wall
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Web links
- Brita-Arena.de: Official website
- SVWW.de: Stadium plan
- Stadionwelt.de: Stadium guide
- Groundhopping.de: Visitor report from 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ worldofstadiums.com: BRITA-Arena
- ↑ svwehen-wiesbaden.de: Sponsors
- ↑ Reduction of spectator capacity in the BRITA-Arena ( Memento from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Long live the temporary solution ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ wiesbaden.de: Reconstruction of the BRITA Arena article from October 30, 2014.
- ↑ SVWW: Stadium expansion for promotion? In: kicker.de. Kicker , March 7, 2019, accessed March 8, 2019 .
- ^ Stephan Crecelius: Expansion of the Wiesbaden Brita-Arena begins on March 11th. In: wiesbadener-kurier.de. Wiesbadener Kurier , March 7, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
- ↑ The BRITA-Arena during the construction phase , svwehen-wiesbaden.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
- ↑ Too high demands from Mainz 05: Bruchweg Stadium at TSV Schott "no longer in focus". In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de. Allgemeine Zeitung , April 6, 2017, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
- ↑ SV Wehen Wiesbaden outsources professionals , faz.net, August 28, 2008, accessed on April 15, 2020.
- ↑ Arena operation , brita-arena.de, accessed on April 15, 2020.